HAVE A QUESTION? Simple MSPA Questions, Simple Answers!

[HellaBro]

"Dang man," you say to yourself, "I have some lingering questions about ProblemStuck! I'll just make a thread to ask my question." But before you know it, tynic locked it, putting up a surreal webcomic panel and you still don't have an answer! THAT'S WHAT THIS THREAD IS FOR. ANSWERS. TO SIMPLE QUESTIONS.

By simple questions, I mean things that have definite answers. Things like "when did John find the sledgehammer?" or "what page is John's letter to Dave on?" (here and here respectively).
Whatpumpkin technical difficulties go here too, but not forum software questions like "how do I go to a first unread thread" or "why is my clock wrong". Those go in the Forum Questions and Answers subforum.

If you're unsure about posting a thread, ask here first! We'll tell you if it's been done before or if it's not a good idea.

If it doesn't have a definite answer, take it over to the IDE/Theory thread. (note: IDE in IDE/Theory is a typo that has ascended to permanent status). That's stuff like "Is Sburb evil?" or "What would happen if Rose died?". You can ask what the theories on a certain topic are, such as "what are the popular theories to whom Jade's penpal is?"

Joke questions are not cool here. "Has anyone been as far as really even..." I don't even know the meme and I don't care, it's just dumb here.

You are encouraged to use the Forum search function to look to see if your question has been answered before (One search every 30 seconds if you're logged in, 60 if you're not.) and to check out the Introduction Thread. Highly esteemed forum magician Wheeeeeeatthins wrote a great forum history that might just answer your question about what is up with Worcestershire sauce as an option on so many polls.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: (this will be updated as the thread goes on, and you can PM your suggestions to me!)

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Q: How canon is Professor's Felt?
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So, short answer is that Felt is not canon in any meaningful way.

(Full post here)

Q: What happened to the music on <page>?
A:Music by artist Bill Bolin was replaced after he caused serious drama/problems with the music team. It was decided all his ties to the project should be cut and thus was the music removed for sale and replaced in the flashes. It will NOT be coming back ever. It's inarguable. You can find links for the old flashes with creative Search powers, but PLEASE do not start on how the animations "don't fit" the new music. Concede your hindsight bias and have faith in Andrew and the music team.

Q: I heard there used to be more songs on Album 5, what happened?
A: The track "Endless Heart" was accused of plagiarism, investigated, and then removed from Bandcamp. Shortly after, the other songs by that artist were removed. There aren't many details about why, but Betelgeuse has said that the conclusion they were all plagiarized is "not even remotely the conclusion that should be drawn here"

Q: Why aren't there Nanna or Dave imps/agents in the Medium? Weren't they prototyped?
A: Only pre-medium prototypes affect Skaia and the Kingdoms. Nanna and Future Dave were prototyped after they entered the medium.

Q: What are Quarters and Matchsticks' powers?
A: They were never shown. Andrew said on his formspring the powers don't matter and due to the constant question he is adverse to showing them.

Q: I have a problem with Bandcamp and payment! Where's my music???
A: You should contact Betelgeuse! Your best bet is whatpumpkin@gmail.com, but you can PM her too!

Q: So with this all this ectobiology business, Rose/Dave and John/Jade could technically not be incest because of chromosomes and...
A: No stop, they're biological brothers and sisters. Doesn't mean you can't draw/fanfic the pairs, however, don't try to fight things like "too bad it's incest" because, well, it is

Ask away!

[I-gor]

Isn't this thread supposed to be stickied?

[Avi]

A mod will sticky it.

[HellaBro]

Yeah, it's the second one. I decided to forgo the 2 in the title though. It'll get stickied and the other one locked soon enough.

[kwinse]

Where's the best place to just complain about things in vBulletin that I think are idiotic and don't really expect to be changed?

[HellaBro]

The Forum Questions and Answers Subforum is filled with that sort of stuff!

[NotASenator]

Where's the best place to just complain about things in vBulletin that I think are idiotic and don't really expect to be changed?

You could always PM me about it, or if you wanted to be more public about your disdain, you can make a new thread in the Forum Q&A.

[Xei Win Toh]

Is there a way to purchase more than one album from bandcamp at a time? Mucking around the site, I don't see anything about it in the FAQ, or a 'shopping cart' thingy.

[nick012000]

Is this the place to ask Andrew Hussey questions? I was curious as to whether or not he's considered building up a buffer so that he'd have a reserve so that if he has to go out of town again or get sick or whatever he'd have that reserve so he wouldn't have to interrupt the updates of the comic. Even holding back one image-post a day would add up fairly quickly.

[Avi]

Ask him here: http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie
Or you could email or PM him

If I recall correctly, there's no buffer because he updates the moment he's finished working on it.

[deathregis]

I know piracy is like super-verboten, but is there any legal, non-piracy way of getting ahold of the lost songs? Like directly from him or something?

[Avi]

Yes, very recently Bolin made them available for download REDACTED OH SMACK, AVI

[RLabs]

He has them on his bandcamp page; however you probably won't be able to find it because the forums have a word filter on the url. So yeah, you have to search for them yourself.

EDIT: Never mind they don't anymore. So yeah check Avi's post.

[tynic]

Ask him here: http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie
Or you could email or PM him

Just a heads up - I wouldn't expect to get an answer through either of the latter mediums; Andrew gets a shit-ton of mail and PMs about various things, and doesn't have time to answer many. Formspring is your best bet, although the question may still be glossed over.

[Avi]

Hmm looks like the word filter for that website is off?

[NotASenator]

I fixed it.

[Fix It Jones]

So who was it that had all that sweet MSPA related stuff in their signature. The Sburb screensaver and the Bro Log In screen? I'm hunting for it and failing miserably.

[nothingatall]

So who was it that had all that sweet MSPA related stuff in their signature. The Sburb screensaver and the Bro Log In screen? I'm hunting for it and failing miserably.

I believe that was elrunethe2nd

and below me avi provides a link.

yaaaay

[Avi]

http://www.mspaforums.com/member.php?56843-elrunethe2nd

[Fix It Jones]

Sweet. Thanks. I would have just searched for the words but I'm not sure we have that feature anymore

[Phantom Gamer]

Is there any way I could get hold of the songs Showtime and variants of Harlequin for use in a game which I am in no way going to make any profit from?

[Fix It Jones]

Is there any way I could get hold of the songs Showtime and variants of Harlequin for use in a game which I am in no way going to make any profit from?

You should probably PM the artists of the songs you want to use. They'll give you the yay or nay on that subject

[Phantom Gamer]

You should probably PM the artists of the songs you want to use. They'll give you the yay or nay on that subject

Ok, but I'll need directing to their (Malcolm Brown and Mark Hadley)'s profiles, as the links on the credits page are now broken. Damn forum update.

Also, where can I find the finale of Forapocalypse?

[Avi]

http://members.shaw.ca/aknowlan/forapocalypse.html
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/restruction.htm

[Solaris]

Does the word filter still turn the site into meat?
Also, real question... uuuhhhh...
Does anyone want to have an MSPA Page as their avatar?